Don Young

Don Young (9 June 1933-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-AK) from 6 March 1973, succeeding Nick Begich.

Biography
Don Young was born in Meridian, California on 9 June 1933, and he graduated from Yuba College and Chico State College. He served in the US Army from 1955 to 1957 and moved to Alaska in 1959, becoming a mariner, a tugboat captain, and the head of a barge operation. From 1964 to 1968, he served as Mayor of Fort Yukon, and he served in the State House from 1967 to 1971 and in the State Senate from 1971 to 1973. In 1973, he won a special election to succeed Congressman Nick Begich, who died in a plane crash. He was a moderate, most often crossing lines on labor issues. He voted against some free trade agreements and a bill that would weaken employer establishment regulations, but he was pro-life, and he supported a few other conservative views.